Document
Cookie policy
Date of original document
5 February 2022
Original document author
Ed Sellwood
Approved by
VIY Board
Next review date
August 2024

In common with most websites, volunteerityourself.org uses “cookies”. Please ensure you have read and understood this policy before continuing to use our website. If you have any questions about our use of cookies, you can contact us at comms@teamviy.com.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small snippets of text that are stored on your computer. When you request a page from our website, the cookies are sent to our web server, and when we send a page back to you our server may add to or change these cookies. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
For a video about cookies visit: www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/data-on-the-web/cookies.

We use cookies for a few reasons, such as helping you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. We also use Google Analytics, which allows us to understand how users are navigating our website and to improve the experience for our users. In the table below we list details of all the software we use for this purpose.

In accordance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR) and other relevant UK data protection legislation, and to be as open and transparent as possible, we have provided more information on the cookies in use on our website here. These details may change over time as we continue to develop our website.

Cookie consent and removal of cookies

With the exception of essential cookies (which we set so that they are always on), we will only use cookies with your consent and these cookies are switched off until you opt to turn them on.

You may refuse to accept cookies by changing the settings in your web browser to allow or deny different websites from setting cookies. Disabling essential cookies may mean that you are not able to use some or all of the functionality of our website. For more information about cookies including how to set your internet browser to reject cookies please go to www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of Google Analytics visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Which cookies are used on this website?

  1. A list of all the cookie types that may be used on this website by category is set out below.
    • Essential cookies – These cookies are required to enable core site functionality. They measure a session and are essential to enable a user to move around the website and its features;
    • Functional cookies – These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages;
    • Performance cookies – These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features;
    • Analytics cookies – These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
  2. The table below explains the individual cookies we use and why.
    • Cookie type: Analytics
      Name: _ga
      Product: Google Analytics
      Purpose and duration: Web UI Analytical Tool

      Name: _gat_gtag_UA_213465350_1
      Product: Google Analytics
      Purpose and duration: Web UI Analytical Tool

      Name: _gid
      Product: Google Analytics
      Purpose and duration: Web UI Analytical Tool

      Name: _ga_WHDH5E8Z2Z
      Product: Google Analytics
      Purpose and duration: Web UI Analytical Tool

    • Cookie type: Essential/Technical
      Name: wp-settings-time-4
      Product: WordPress
      Purpose and duration: Web UI Analytical Tool

      Name: wp-settings-4
      Product: WordPress
      Purpose and duration: Web UI Analytical Tool